Listen to New Chris Cornell Song ‘You Never Knew My Mind’

A previously unheard Chris Cornell song, “You Never Knew My Mind,” has been released. The late Soundgarden singer recorded the track using the words from a Johnny Cash poem in 2016, a year before his death.

You can listen to Cornell’s track above and watch an interview shot during the studio session below.

“I met the man once or twice in my life, and he was so gracious and he was such an influence on me as a musician," Cornell said of Cash, who recorded his Soundgarden song “Rusty Cage” in 1996. "Since that time, I’ve felt like he’s maybe one of the bigger presences in my life, in terms of artists that I’m a fan of.”

“I met Chris backstage in the early 1990s when my father performed a show in Seattle," Cash’s son, John Carter Cash, explained. "Chris told me then that he had been a fan of my father even when most of his friends listened to hard rock. When I was conceiving this album years later, I reached out to him, and he was excited and honored to be involved. Chris connected deeply with my father’s words, and his finished version of 'You Never Knew My Mind' tied his own life experience to my father’s on an honest level.”

Johnny Cash: Forever Words will be released on April 6 on CD, double vinyl and digital formats. The album is a companion volume to the book Forever Words: The Unknown Poems, which was published in 2016. You can see the LP's track listing below.